Magda Bolumar Chertó
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In the late 1940s and early ’50s, Magda Bolumar Chertó trained as a painter in the studio of Rafael Estrany, who had been a student of the Belgian painter James Ensor. There, she learnt the techniques of composition and use of colour. She combined that training with her studies at the School of Arts and Crafts of Mataró.
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In 1960, Magda Bolumar Chertó started using woven sack yarn, a material with which she developed her most personal work. That is how she created her burlaps, which Vidal de Llobatera called ‘xarpalleres’ in Catalan. The critic Alexandre Cirici said of them: “Magda’s work is not analogous, similar or equal to anything else. That’s its main strength.” And he added: “the plasticity of the material freed her and allowed anguish and pleasure to meet, suddenly, in a brand new domain, where nobody could guide her, where imitation was impossible.” |
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Short film of the interview with Magda Bolumar Chertó for the exhibition Magda Bolumar: Papers from the ’60s and ’70s at the Marc Domènech gallery in Barcelona. (2019) |
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